IFE Services’ Creative Team Helps Sister Company OceansTV Win Four Telly Awards

Creative team of airline in-flight entertainment provider works in partnership with cruise industry’s leading entertainment production company to win six awards in two years for original production work for Royal Caribbean International.

20th May 2010 – Knutsford, Cheshire, UK. IFE Services, a leading airline in-flight entertainment provider, today announced that its creative team has worked closely with sister company, OceansTV, to win four Telly Awards.

The awards are in recognition of original productions for Oceans TV’s client, Royal Caribbean International, the world’s largest global cruise line. From over 13,000 entries worldwide, IFE Services and OceansTV won three Telly Awards for onboard TV program, Royal Caribbean International Menu Magic 2009. They won Silver Tellys, the highest award available, in the Travel / Tourism and Use of Graphics categories and a Bronze Award in the Use of HD category. For their informational short film, Oasis Cruise in Review, they won a Bronze Telly in the Use of Graphics category.

Founded in 1978, the Telly Awards are the premier honour recognising the best local, regional and cable television commercials and programs, video and film productions and work created for the Web. Now in their 31st year, the awards aim to strengthen the visual arts community by inspiring, promoting and supporting creativity.

The 4 Telly Awards brings OceansTV’s total to six after being awarded two in 2009 for original productions for Carnival Cruise Lines and fashion company, Dillard’s.

IFE Services and OceansTV are both part of the Travel Entertainment Group (TEG) and their teams frequently work in partnership to deliver high quality passenger entertainment content to travel companies.

“To see Oceans TV and IFE Services working together to win these awards only goes to reaffirm our belief in the calibre of the Travel Entertainment Group,” said Adam Maidment, Principal of Greenhill Capital Partners Europe, the private equity fund which took a minority stake in TEG in 2008. “We are greatly encouraged to see the business grow and prosper at such an impressive rate since making our investment.”